Wyatt White, left, 11, of China, and Ryan Violette, 10, of Action, observe a fire they started Sunday with magnifying glasses during a physics display at the annual 4-H Days at the Windsor Fairgrounds. Nearly 500 people attended the annual agricultural gathering held from Thursday until Sunday to exhibit animals, attend workshops and burn a […]

District Game Warden Steve Allaire clutches a Black Duck chick he retrieved Monday on Western Avenue in Augusta. Allaire intercepted a hen and six chicks attempting to cross the busy route at rush hour and retrieved two chicks that become separated from the brood after falling down a storm drain. The mother duck and four […]

Maeve Burgess, 4, of Monmouth, licks her fingers Monday after consuming a strawberry in a patch at Stevenson’s Strawberries in Wayne. The first fruit crop of the year is ready for picking at farms across Maine.

Members of the Maine Army National Guard 136th Engineer Company pound together a wall Sunday at the Palermo Consolidated School. The soldiers erected a storage building at the school as a community project with materials the school provided. 

Ethan Noordyk strings an electric fence Monday at Oaklands Farm in Gardiner before moving a herd of grass raised cattle to the new pasture. The field had several moist spots from recent storms but Noordyk and farmer Logan Johnston hung the wires and planned to move the beef critters ahead of rain forecast later this […]